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Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes featured on 'Madden NFL 20' cover

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EA Sports today announced that Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes is the cover athlete for “Madden NFL 20,” this year’s edition of the long-running video game franchise.

Mahomes will be the first Chiefs player ever to be on the cover. This was an easy decision for the folks at Electronic Arts. Mahomes is one of the most recognizable athletes in the NFL after an MVP season in which he exceeded 5,000 passing yards and threw for 50 touchdowns.

Here’s a cool interview with Mahomes courtesy of our friends at USA TODAY Sports. You can find the transcript at the bottom:

Q: When you found out that you were on the cover of Madden, what was the first thing that ran through your mind? Did you think about the curse at all?

PM15: No not at all. I though it was honestly pretty surreal. I’ve heard of the curse, but I feel like Tom Brady had a pretty good season after he was on the cover too. I don’t think that is much of a big deal at all. You just go out there and your dream is to be on the cover of Madden.

Q: So I was talking to the EA Folks and you don’t have a rating yet?

PM15: I know, I’m working on it, I’m think 100. That’s what I am thinking, not 99. I want to get all the way to 100.

Q: So when you first got your rating last year, it was like in the 70s?

PM15: I’d play and I couldn’t hit anybody because my accuracy was so bad. We’ve got it down now. All I have to do is just tap square and you can just lob it to Tyreek (Hill) and then he just catches it. Touchdown.

Q: So when you started with those no-look passes, it like blew up on Twitter, and they said, ‘Patrick Mahomes is the first guy ever to master the vision cone.’

PM15: Yeah, I didn’t see that part, but that is awesome. I said we need to add a ‘no-look rating’ in Madden now. So have a little ‘no-look rating’ and I can start throwing no-look passes [in the game].

Q: Are they going to be able to do that in the game? Did they add it?

PM15: I don’t know they haven’t told me yet, but it’s kind of a new idea I had here recently. Maybe you have to tap like two buttons at the same time, you look at one receiver and throw to the other or something like that.

That no-look game mechanic sounds pretty neat. Hopefully being the cover athlete will allow Mahomes some sort of design influence over the game.

Chiefs Kingdom will also get to find out whether the fabled “Madden” curse that has followed many of those on the cover is actually real.

Finally Mahomes provided a quote on what it means to be on the cover athlete:

“There’s only like 30, 31 people who have ever done it. You think about like Michael Vick, Tom Brady, Antonio Brown and all these guys that are legends of the game. It’s an amazing feeling, it was surreal when I found out. I’m extremely excited to have it framed on my mantel one day.”

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